1. I'm going to find out what the campaigns are like, from the point of view of a voter.

2. I'm hoping to play the role of pied piper, to show other people how to do it, and have fun, and participate in our government, as we're supposed to, imho.

3. I want to bring weblogs into the campaign, but not as candidates blogging, but as voters publishing their ideas and working together to share information and figure out who's best to run the country for the next four years.

4. As a technologist, I want to see if there's any way we can facilitate this kind of activity.

 As I've written elsewhere, I don't think there's a lot of juice in candidates doing weblogs. They're just going to have their ad agencies do it. It'll be written to make it look like the candidate is writing, but they'll run focus groups to find out what they should say on their weblog.

# Posted by Dave Winer on 8/17/03; 11:55:44 AM - --